SAN DIEGO — A report issued Thursday said a number of San Diego County businesses help prove the idea that solving global warming can be good for the bottom line. Officials from the nonprofit Environment California Research & Policy Center, along with San Diego Association of Government representatives, held a news conference at the agency’s San Diego offices to announce the findings of the research group’s six-month study. The report said a study of a dozen of businesses, agencies and institutions across the state showed that companies could help stop global warming and still earn a profit —- mostly by cutting energy use. Some business interests howled and said that it could jeopardize the economy when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in April that he backed a goal of cutting ‘greenhouse’ gases —- created by the burning of fossil fuels —- by 25 percent by 2020. Global warming refers to the idea that the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere are being harmfully heated up by greenhouse gases emitted naturally and by mankind —- leading to climate change that could have devastating effects such as increased killer storms and rising sea levels. The report cited two examples of […]